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Now, on to today's episode.

When it comes to practicing, we often talk about the

what you should be practicing to improve your musicianship or your jazz skills. And often some

tactics are prescribed. I know that I often prescribe certain practice regimens, different things

that you can do to accelerate your progress, but we often don't

talk about the deeper side, the brain side, the psychological side of practicing, how we can

speed up our development by the way we think, by the way we feel physically. And all these things

that are kind of meta and beneath the surface of what we normally talk about when we talk about practicing.

So on today's show, I have very special guest, Mark Gelfo, the founder of the practicing app, Modacity, to get inside of all this stuff with us to talk about the mind, the body, and music, and how we can apply some real strategies for improving our

practicing and improving our progress.

Let's do this thing.

Welcome to the LJS podcast, where you get weekly jazz tips, interviews, stories,

and advice for becoming a better jazz musician.

And now your host.

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